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Why including everyone — yes, even billionaires like Elon Musk — works better than means-testing ever possibly can Imagine a room with a thousand people. You know that 999 of them need something to...

Do the critics have any worthwhile points?

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The use of AI can ensure much more leisure for the working class, but capitalism instead subordinates AI to profiteering. Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massa...

My guest this week is anarchist activist William Gillis, author of the book Did the Science Wars Take Place? The Political and Ethical Stakes of Radical Realism. We cover the many flavors of anti-real...

I recently co-authored an essay arguing that a Universal Basic Income (UBI) might attain the goals of Guaranteed Income advocates better than a targeted Guaranteed Income would. I stand by the points ...

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Given the current climate, one might wonder whether this is the time for a report on universal basic income (UBI). But speaking as two people who’ve advocated UBI since the early 2000s: Current prospe...

Our vital task in the coming years is to prove that democracy can deliver, better and more quickly than any alternative. We must renew and create institutions that empower people and ensure the materi...

A German experiment has found that people are likely to continue working full-time even if they receive no-strings-attached universal basic income payments.

( Note to reader: These are lightly expanded notes for a class I once gave on freedom of speech. The notes are intended to explain the...

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The Biden Administration never had any plan to control the H5N1 outbreak on dairy farms; now, it's spreading widely in a country ill equipped to understand or control airborne disease.

Universal programs are much easier to administer than means-tested ones.

In his refutation of the famous libertarian arguments of Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia, socialist thinker G. A. Cohen showed the absurdity of thinking that we had to accept an unequal soc...

Recent experiments make the case for a paradigm shift in the provision of social assistance.

Imagine everyone getting a basic income just because they are a citizen. Read on to know how this basic income will change things in society.

Probability itself is an expression of uncertainty, but the calculations behind the percentages can seem objective. David Spiegelhalter argues that this is impossible: My argument is that any pract…

A frequently misunderstood argument in Mill’s On Liberty explains why academic freedom is essential in higher education.

Remember the right-wing frenzy over “Rich Men North of Richmond”? Well, this ruling exposes Trump-MAGA hypocrisy on the working class—and reveals a big media failure.

The structure of philanthropy around the world is increasingly a manifestation of plutocracy – government by the wealthy. Treating universities as places where corporations can outsource their researc...